Archive for April, 2009
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Hands and Knees
Hands and Knees – Et tu, Fluffy? 7/10 Perhaps – and I hope! – directed at that cute little pink and white unicorn on the cover, Et tu, Fluffy? isn’t a question that looks like it will be answered throughout the course of this Boston four piece’s sophomore album, but that’s unimportant and probably impossible [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Album,Reviews by Sarah Gooding
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Omar Rodríguez-López
Omar Rodríguez-López – Old Money 7/10 Described as his most accessible non-Mars Volta release yet, the prolific psychedelic/progressive guitarist is famed for releasing inaccessible meanderings of the experimental kind. The 33-year-old multi-instrumentalist’s past solo releases include The Apocalypse Inside Of An Orange, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fungus and Minor Cuts and Scrapes In The [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Album,Reviews by Sarah Gooding
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
New Matt & Kim video
Matt & Kim Naked Check out the brand new video from Brooklyn, New York’s electro indie favourites Matt & Kim. The video for their song ‘Lessons Learned’ features the pair stripping off naked in front of a crowd of people on the New York side walk, before being harassed by police. The first two minutes [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in New York by Nick Fulton
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Matt & Kim
Matt & Kim – Grand 8/10 There’s nothing like a really clear, punchy pop song, and that’s precisely what Matt & Kim dish up on their second Grand. Sounding like a fun white boy block party, you can practically hear the fun rebounding off the walls of old brick buildings, screeching echoes like cars veering [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Album,Reviews by Sarah Gooding
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Dynamo Go
Dynamo Go- The Fool Of Fountain City 9/10 Sometimes it’s a relief to hear a band making music that’s so organic and natural. Dynamo Go’s debut album is made with pure love; love for their songs, their instruments and between each member of the band. The Hamilton band has really come out of their shell, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Album,Reviews by Nick Fulton
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
David Kilgour & Sam Hunt
David Kilgour & Sam Hunt- Falling Debris 6/10 I remember when I was a teenager and Sam Hunt visited my High School, we all thought it was a bit lame, being a boys school. He was actually quite entertaining, but we were all a bit staunch to admit we were interested in poetry. Years later, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Album,Reviews by Nick Fulton
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Reefer
Maybe it’s May Baleen Recently I reflected on one of my all-time favourite pop bands, The Unicorns. I discovered that founding member Nick Thornburn has since made mellowed out “luau hip hop” music with LA producer/engineer mate Daddy Kev in their band Reefer. The idea for the band is said to have come about after [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Canada,Los Angeles by Sarah Gooding
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
BLK JKS
Can You Feel It In The Air Tonight? From the harsh climate of Johannesburg’s East Rand and the southern town of Soweto comes BLK JKS; a wild, drone infused psychedelic thrashing with dub style rhythms and spacious African harmonies (sung in English). The band formed in 2000 when child-hood friends Mpumi Mcata and Lindani Buthelezi started [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in South Africa by Nick Fulton
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Boston Spaceships
Boston Spaceships- The Planets Are Blasted 9/10 The legend that is Robert Pollard keeps on trucking. With Guided By Voices long burned to ashes, Boston Spaceships is a whole new beast, fronted by Pollard with former GBV member Chris Slusarenko and John Moen (Eliot Smith, Decemberists). As a young musician, skilled and harnessed during the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Album,Reviews by Nick Fulton
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Ringfinger
Slow Release Tracy Wilson is perhaps best known as being an essential member of influential New Jersey band Dahlia Seed. Between 1992-1996 Dahlia Seed produced three aggressive albums of emo/grunge/hardcore, which today sees them credited as one of the founding bands of the emo genre. The most well known of the Dahlia Seed’s, Wilson was [...]
